Intersteno E-news 94

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STENOTYPE IN ARGENTINA
We do not want to conclude this article without referring to the development of Stenotype, on which
Argentina was a pioneer in Latin America.
When did stenotype arrive in our country? The first experiences began in 1934 at the hand of a
woman. Indeed, in May 1934 Mrs. Teodelina Lezica de Uriburu published her book Stenotipia
argentina (1934), adapting the French Grandjean machine system to the Spanish language.
At the same time, she started a training course at the Academy of Stenotype. The encouraging results
obtained made the Ministry of Public Instruction decide to teach Stenotype at the School of
Commerce Nº 2, for Women. To that end, Celia Troncoso Calvo, "an outstanding disciple of the
aforementioned course, was appointed a teacher”, as we can read in the shorthand magazine
"Escritura Veloz" Nº 7, January 1950.
Another of the students, Sara H. Sánchez, had the opportunity to demonstrate her extraordinary
mastery of the machine in a presentation made in the Senate of the Nation in January 1935. And in
that year another course was started by Ms. Celia Troncoso Calvo in the Library of the National Council
of Women, which ended with a public demonstration on November 20 of that year, at which time
Mrs. Uriburu, who was a delegate of the Professional Association of Steno typists of France, gave an
allusive conference . The exams for the position of professors took place on December 18, with 14
participants obtaining their corresponding diplomas. (”Escritura Veloz, Nº 7, January 1950).
On the other hand, in 1942 after an exhibition of stenotypes that was held at the Buenos Aires Police ,
a resolution was issued authorizing a group of policemen to attend a course on stenotypes at the
"Gregoria Pérez" Adult School. The teacher for that course was Mrs. María Isabel S. de Lezica.
Another example of the interest generated by the knowledge and dissemination of stenotype is
pointed out by the stenographer Miguel Palant in another article published in the shorthand magazine
"Escritura Veloz" Nº 8, April 1950, whose title was Stenotipia Grandjean.